Friday's Ferrari

I photographed this car at the VSCC's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Donington Park in June 2003 where it took part in a Shell Historic Ferrari Maserati Challenge race.

Shown in the programme of the event as a 1963 Ferrari 330 LM, it's also sometimes described as a 330 GTO. Unlike the other 330 GTOs which had a 250 GTO chassis with a 4 litre SuperAmerica engine, this car is basically a 400 SuperAmerica with a 250 GTO body. The car is chassis number 4561SA and was owned by Carlo Vögele who is seen here leaving the pits during a practice session.

I've shown photographs of the car twice previously, in the pit garage at this meeting on 9 May 2014, and on 15 August 2014 at the Silverstone Classic meeting in 2010.

Friday's Ferrari

The VSCC Seaman Trophies meeting at Donington Park in June 2003 included three races on both of the two days of the meeting for different categories of the Shell Historic Ferrari/Maserati Challenge. Here is a photograph taken in the pit lane during practice showing two of the cars which took part in these races.

Number 66 is the 1961 Ferrari 250GT SWB Berlinetta of Gregor Fisken, serial number 2443GT. Car number 90 behind it is the 1964 Ferrari 250LM which the programme of the event says was driven at this meeting by Andre Lara Resende. The car is serial number 5899 and www.barchetta.cc says that the car was at that time jointly owned by Andre Lara Resende and Frederico della Noce, but driven on that day by Frederico della Noce. In the distance you can see the nose of Carlo Vögele's 1963 Ferrari 330LM.

Friday's Ferrari

This car took part in the Royal Automobile Club Tourist Trophy for Historic Cars race at the Silverstone Classic meeting in July 2010 and is here seen in the pit garage.

It was shown in the programme of the meeting as a 1962 Ferrari 330 GTO and the owner Carlo Vögele shared the driving in the 1 hour race with Willie Green. The car's serial number is 4561SA and I've featured it before, with a photograph from a 2003 Donington Park event, on 9th May 2014. This car is classed by www.barchetta.cc as a Ferrari 330 LM and says that six cars were produced, two with GTO style bodywork and four with Pininfarina bodywork similar to the 250 Lusso. The information I gave previously was that it was a 330 GTO (or 330 LM) and that three cars were produced and that information came from a www.supercars.net website which only covered the cars with the GTO style bodywork and says that the first car built (3673SA) was badly damaged before the second car (3765LM) was built, and subsequently:

'At the request of Michel Paul-Cavalier, a third and final 330 GTO on chassis 4561SA was built to his own specification for road use. This included a lengthened wheel base, brake booster, fully covered front lights and a full interior trim in blue upholstery. Despite being made for the road the car featured a full Tipo 163/566 competition engine and Tipo 539/566 chassis but a unique transmission with synchromesh gears.'

So the car in this photograph is the third to be built, but the first car no longer exists as such. It was rebuilt, as www.barchetta.cc says, and is now classed as a 400 Scaglietti Berlinetta GT SWB.